This is an analysis of the poem The Hammer that begins with:
I have seen
The old gods go ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX aXXX aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 0111 10111 111 1111 0101 10101 01 110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 48
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 16 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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